Do you think real person perform with a vocaloid?

Question

I was just a bit curios I've always been in to vocaloids, well holograms in general. Like when the Gorillaz performed live or Hatsune Miku, Rin and Len.

But I'm just wondering would it be possible for a REAL person to perform on a stage with a vocaloid/hologram. Or would it just mess up things like projections.

What do you think?

:) Thanks

Answer 1

None of those things are even holograms. They use tricks and just tell people they are holograms. None of them are even 3D for that matter. Just flat 2D video projections. For the Vocaloid concerts they are just using a projector on a screen hidden on the stage. The screen is really thin and can't be seen so when the projected image of the performer is shown on it, they are all you see, and it looks like they are walking around on the stage. People have even made their own using mosquito netting as the screen. In the dark it's hard to see and creates the same "holographic" look.



The Gorillaz, Tupac, and Michael Jackson used a slightly different method. The projector was hidden up above the stage and was pointed straight down. Then there is a transparent semi-reflective screen hidden on stage at a 45 degree angle. The audience would see a glowing see-through reflection of the video projection that appears to be moving around on the stage. This is really just an updated stage illusion that used to use to make ghosts and such in the theater a long long time ago. (Pepper's Ghost Illusion)



In both of these situations, actual performers can (and have) interacted with the projections as long as they don't hit the screen or block the light from the projectors.



Actual holograms are no where capable of doing any of the things we see them doing in the movies so people have to resort to trickery to create similar effects. Calling these things holograms is at best a marketing ploy, and at worse and outright lie.

Answer 2

Real people do perform on stage with Miku. Snoop Dogg performed on stage with that fake Tupac thing. There are limits to what can be done - the projections need their own space because there are physical screens that they are being projected or reflected on, so the people have to stand further away. They also can't come between the screen and the image source or else they will block it. But they can still be on the same stage.